BILL NUMBER: SCR 43	CHAPTERED  09/21/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   131
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 21, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 2, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 24, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Baca

                        JULY 12, 1999

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 43--Relative to prostate cancer.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 43, Baca.  Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
   This measure would proclaim the month of September 1999 as
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.




   WHEREAS, In 1999, prostate cancer is expected to kill an estimated
37,000 men in the United States, and 180,000 new cases will be
diagnosed; and
   WHEREAS, While prostate cancer is the most diagnosed nonskin
cancer in the United States, comprising more than 15 percent of all
nonskin cancer cases, prostate cancer research receives only 5
percent of federal cancer research dollars; and
   WHEREAS, African-Americans have the highest incidence of prostate
cancer in the world; and
   WHEREAS, One in six men will be diagnosed to have prostate cancer
during his lifetime; and
   WHEREAS, Considering the devastating impact of the disease among
men and their families, prostate cancer research remains woefully
underfunded; and
   WHEREAS, It is hoped that more resources devoted to clinical and
translational research at the National Institutes of Health will be
highly determinative of whether rapid advances can be attained in
treatment, and ultimately a cure, for prostate cancer; and
   WHEREAS, Greater awareness of the incidence of prostate cancer is
necessary to accomplish those advances; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby proclaims the month
of September 1999 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit a copy of this
resolution to the President of the United States, the Governor of
the State of California, the Director of the United States Department
of Health and Human Services, and to each Senator and Representative
from California in the Congress of the United States.
